A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A local sailor in Venice is upset by the irreverence exhibited by tourists—and it gets him into immense danger.

In the near future, an energy crisis compels humanity to take advantage of the one source left untouched by industrialization: the past.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.